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title: At length, after much consideration, the cat said: ‘I know no place… — Grimms' Fairy Tales · tree and pragmatics
description: At length, after much consideration, the cat said: ‘I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there. Who acts: cat, I, place, one. A sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, with its dependenc
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# Grimms' Fairy Tales, Cat and Mouse in Partnership, sentence 4

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At length, after much consideration, the cat said: ‘I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there.

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**Who acts:** cat, I, place, one · **What happens:** say, know, be, store up, dare, take away · **To what, where:** length, place, anything · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Cat and Mouse in Partnership. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, I, place, one), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg2591:14:4
# text = At length, after much consideration, the cat said: ‘I know no place where it will be better stored up than in the church, for no one dares take anything away from there.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	consideration	consideration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	cat	cat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	‘	'	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	_
15	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	16	det	_	_
16	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	21	advmod	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	cop	_	_
21	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	stored	store	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	32	mark	_	_
30	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	31	det	_	_
31	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
32	dares	dare	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	ccomp	_	_
34	anything	anything	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Ind	33	obj	_	_
35	away	away	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
36	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | the cat |  |  | length and much consideration |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **know** | present | I | no place |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | future | place |  |  |  |  | good *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **store up** | participle | place *not said here* |  |  |  |  | than the church | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dare** | present | no one |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **take away** | present |  | anything |  |  |  | away *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme from there=Initial\_Location |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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